The cheeky Nigerian journalists who recently embarrassed
President Robert Mugabe when he attended the inauguration of that
country’s new leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, say the nonagenarian
was “fast asleep” just before they accosted him so he looked confused.
In a hard-hitting posting on Facebook last week by Omoyele Sowore,
the publisher of Sahara — the online news agency that promotes citizen
journalism and reports mainly on corruption and human rights abuses on
the continent, and which roasted Mugabe while he was in Abuja — the
journalists appeared to rub salt in Mugabe’s wounds.
